Posted on: 11/11/07 10:39am
By: trampoline
This site http://www.phayul.com/news/article.aspx?t=3&c=1&id=18306
has a photo news setion I like it, it adds something, what I really like is the Forward & backward buttons, to browse the photo news...
My question is could we do something like this in Geeklog ?
If so how easy do you think this would be ?
Re: any thoughts on photo news ?
Posted on: 11/11/07 01:24pm
By: beewee
You could set config.php to use only one article per page. Next problem would be the paging, I believe there are some forum threads about that.
Re: any thoughts on photo news ?
Posted on: 11/11/07 01:51pm
By: jmucchiello
With the right modifications to the templates, you could do this with mediagallery.
Re: any thoughts on photo news ?
Posted on: 11/11/07 02:28pm
By: machinari
yeah, I like that too! as beewee says, using one article per page set from the config.php would work. I don't know what the problem with paging would be as I've done that on a couple of site's without issue.
As for the pictures, you could go two ways: first, use an MG autotag embedded in the article. The autotag offers the ability to add size parameters for the image. Second, you could adust the appropriate MG template file to display the image caption differently and either embed the autotag again in an article, or my preference would be to have a different type of centerblock for MG that would display a series of picture news items like this and that would do paging within the block itself.. That would be cool. Then I could still have my articles separate. Maybe a feature request for mevans.
Re: any thoughts on photo news ?
Posted on: 11/11/07 02:34pm
By: machinari
or if you want to go way off, make a "photo news plugin" with all kinds of funky options for drawing photos and/or captions and/or news from other parts of your site (or some other site) into one photo news item.
Re: any thoughts on photo news ?
Posted on: 11/11/07 02:57pm
By: trampoline
Quote by: machinarior if you want to go way off, make a "photo news plugin" with all kinds of funky options for drawing photos and/or captions and/or news from other parts of your site (or some other site) into one photo news item.
Yes this is what I would like to do I think I'm 6 months off being able to really do a pluggin.
I think one article per page is no good for a site config.php as I want most topics to be multi items per page.
Re: any thoughts on photo news ?
Posted on: 11/11/07 03:07pm
By: machinari
setting one article per page on the front page still allows you to have more than one article on topic pages. That number is set from the topic editor. fyi.
I'd sure like to see a photo news plugin though.